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Good news: We are going to be doing some server upgrades in the next day (more ram, etc) so the Forum will be faster and more stable. Bad news: The forum will be offline starting June 7, 2012 beginning at about 12:30 am CDT (5:30 GMT/Zulu -5). This maintenance window is scheduled for 2...

Due to preventive maintenance the forum may be offline starting July 28, 2011 starting at 1:01EDT (5:01GMT). This maintenance window is scheduled for 2 hours but the hope is that it will be no more than 30 minutes. We are apologize for any inconvenience.

We are going to have a brief service interruption this evening to do some server maintenance. This is estimated to happen between 1 AM and 3 AM CST (about 11 hours from the time of this post). It shouldn't last more than about 15 minutes and hopefully won't be a substantial inconvenience.

In the next few days we'll be adding a new section to the Board for ebooks and eReaders. We have a growing body of posts about these topics and it seems as though they deserve a topic area of their own. As ususal no commercial content will be allowed. Another change will be the closure of the...

We are going to have a brief service interruption this evening to do some server maintenance. It shouldn't last more than about 15 minutes and hopefully won't be a substantial inconvenience. :flowers:

My family has a holiday habit of reading picture books on Christmas eve to the various small kids that are visiting. I'm looking for some recommendations... Anyone have a favorite or seen a new one that would be excellent?

I have a an old bookmark that I love. It's leather and not really thin enough to be a good book mark but it's a tactical tease and so I keep it. What do you use to keep your place?

This weekend our server admins will be physically moving around some of the hardware that runs the site. They will be performing the maintenance at 12:00 am on either Saturday or Sunday night. The downtime will last for approximately 3 hours. We will not know which night the maintenance is going...

Anyone have any? I'm giving up bottled water and am going to clean my desk off.

After some substantial tussle the blogware has been updated. The new platform is fairly flexible and you can set up your own categories, format text and images and a variety of other options. Check the lower right hand of the blog editor for the little icons to edit, report a blog or e-mail a...

I noticed that this years winner of the bad opening lines contest has been announced by the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Who says writers don't get paid? There was prize money for this!

We're doing some server maintenance over the next few hours. You may experience difficulty loading attachments during this time and/or receive error messages when trying to attach pictures. Our apologies for the inconvenience - but hopefully this will be straightened out quickly.

After quite a bit of input, some additional smilies are now available. The list is still somewhat limited as there seemed to be some sentiment that well written posts shouldn't need embellishment... and so we have tried to strike some balance. The stars can be used for book ratings and the...

Robert, sparkchaser, Occlith and Libra have [-]been conscripted[/-] graciously volunteered to help out as new forum mods. Be gentle...:)

The reply editor has been improved a bit with the addition of 2 shortcuts. The strike-through is an [-]extremely fun[/-] highly useful tool. Just highlight the text to be crossed out and click the [-]ABC[/-] icon above. Spoilers can be added in the same way. Highlight the text to be hidden...

A few nights ago, our software was upgrades to the latest version of vbulletin and we have some new features. Over the next few weeks, we'll tweak and add more. The biggest change is the addition of social networking features available in your profile. You can leave visitor messages, set up...